Dinner-pail.



No. 891,588. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908. H. BARKLEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH BARKLEY, OF PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA, ASSIGNOR TO I. D. BECK, OF PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA.

DINNER-PAIL.

Specification of Iletters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Application filed May 20, 1907. Serial N 0. 374,605.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH BARKLEY, citizen of the United States of America, and residing at Prattville, in the county ofAutauga and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dinner-Pails, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to packing and storage vessels and particularly to a device thereunder known as dinner pails.

One object of this invention is to provide novel means for retaining a series of receptacles in nested relation, means being pro vided for carrying the frame in which the receptacles are nested.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a novel frame to receive the recep tacles and a retaining device frictionally engaging the edges of the receptacles for holding them in position.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for automatically increasing the frictional contact of the retaining device in engagement with the said receptacles.

Furthermore, it is an object of this inven tion to provide a dinner pail having a series of receptacles and a frame for carrying the same, the said frame and receptacles producing a compact means for carrying food and liquid, said means proving comparatively inexpensive to manufacture and at the same time efficient and satisfactory in use.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, in which Figure 1, is a View in elevation of a dinner pail embodying the invention. Fig. 2, is a similar view partly in section with the bucket turned to a position at right angles to that occupied in Fig. 1. Fig. 3, is a top plan view. Fig. 4, is a detail view of one of the receptacles. Fig. 5, is a detail view of the retaining strip. Fig. 6, illustrates a modified retaining strip.

In these drawings A, denotes one section of a frame and B, another section thereof,

5 and the lower ends of said frames are suitably secured to the lower compartment of the receptacle 6, of theseries of rece tacles adapted to nest within the frame. T e several receptacles are numbered 2, 3, 4., 5 and 6, the latter, as stated, being stationary with respect to the frame and the other receptacles being removable. The upper receptacle 2, is provided with a cover 2. This cover is provided with the screw threaded cap 1 and it is also provided with the hand hold a, to permit its ready removal from the rece tacle.

T e lower receptacle is also provided with a guide or retaining member 7, with an inclined inner surface acting as a cam for the end of the retaining strip 8, said retaining strip passing through a loop 9, which is secured on the member B, of the frame. The frame A, is also provided with a pocket 10, which is designed to hold utensils, such as a knife or fork.

The member A, of the frame is provided with a bearing D, to-receive the bail E, by which the pail is carried. The upper rece tacle 2, is provided with a handle C, on t e top. The retaining stri 8, is preferably curvedso that it woul bear against the flanges of the several receptacles and frictionally retain the receptacles against movement. Fig. 5, shows the detail of this device and it is to be seen that the upper end thereof is looped, as at 10*, to form a grasp for manipulating the said strip.

As a modification of the retaining strip, I refer to Fig. 6, which shows the said strip 7 provided with a series of rather abrupt curves forming shoulders 7 which are adapted to aline with the flanges of the said receptacle when the said retaining strip is in place. When applying this strip, the said strip would be forced into place until the centers of the shoulders pass the'flanges, which arrangement would prevent upward movement of said retaining strip except when a pull is exerted.

By reference to the Figs. 1 and 2, it will be seen that the retaining strip is intended to contact with the flanges F, on the receptacles and that the said flanges are forced into engagement with the frame by the action of the said retaining strip.

IVhat I claim is:

1. In a dinner pail, a suitable frame consisting of two frame members crossing each other at the top, receptacles nested between the sections of the frame, a receptacle car ried bythe lower ends. of the frame and a'sliding strip bearing against the receptacles-"to; retain t em in position.

2. In a dinner pail, a frame comprising two sections crossing each other at the top a bail for carrying the frame, a receptacle on the lower ends ofthefiame, a retaining strip ada ted to contact with the-receptacles, a gui e carried by the frame and a secondguide I carried by; the lower, receptacleswithi which the retaining strip; co-acts ,to r-retain thereceptacles in osition).

3..A dinner "pa consisting of.a, frame; a

receptacle secured tothe lower, ends. of1 the frame, a series of"receptacles nested above thefirst mentioned receptacle Within; the: i frame, aretaining strip adapted to engagetlie receptacles and means carried" by the frame. and thelower receptacle for retaining 20 "lithestripinop-erative'position.

4: In a dinner ail, a suitable frame, a receptacle carried, y the lower ends of the "frame, receptacles nested above the first mentioned receptacle within theirame, a suitable Handle for carrying the frame, a icurvedzretaiinn ,:strip and means carried by -the;-frame and ower receptacle for causing the said strip to OOIIt&C't\Wli3hth8 receptacles.v

E In testimony whereof IizafEucnry v signature iin'the presences of two-witnesses this 13th iday of-May, 1907;, I HUGH-a BARKLEY.

Witnesses GUY. Rica,

DOUGLAS BOOTH. 

